Word: jeaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refugees had left Petit-Trou in the first place four months after the coup that deposed Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, when soldiers began arriving in trucks to round up suspected supporters of the exiled President. They hunted in particular for a group of 65 young men who were organizing a peasant co-op. Desperate not to lose the best of its youth, the community elected to pour its savings, its hopes and its most promising citizens into a single boat to America. Selling everything but their beds, the town cobbled together $1,650 and persuaded its wealthiest resident...
...there were a Leaden Ass award, it would have to be split between France and Australia. The French pavilion confirms the ongoing bankruptcy of contemporary art in Paris with a Warhol clone named Jean-Pierre Raynaud. His bright idea was to imprint 15,500 white ceramic tiles with the same photo of a Neolithic human skull and cover the walls of the French pavilion with them. As an exercise in prim, sterile chic, it's unbeatable. Australia is not short of talent, but the political correctness of its official cultural life has sent to Venice the whiny postfeminist images...
...getting tough with Haiti. The Security Council gave the Caribbean nation's military junta just one week to allow democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return from exile to the office from which it ousted him in 1991. If the army fails to reinstate Aristide, Haiti will face severe international sanctions, including a freeze on its overseas assets and an embargo of oil and weapons shipments. A proposal for a naval blockade, however, failed...
...school]," says Hare, a Long Island native who is an Outstanding Achievement Award for Negroes scholar, and plans attend Stanford University in the fall. "But I knew of some problems over the summer. Every Black guy who was dressed nicely and was carrying a briefcase was accused of being Jean Baptiste." Baptiste, who is Black, was convicted in 1991 of rapidly two male Harvard summer school students...
...remember during my 25th thinking that the cost of my reunion and flight from England [where I was living] amounted to my tuition during my first year at Harvard," says Jean Leventhal '63, who is now chair of her 30th reunion...